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Gignac gets nod for qualifiers

Marseille forward Andre-Pierre Gignac made his return to the France squad for the qualifiers against Georgia and Belarus, but there was no place for Newcastle United midfielder Yohan Cabaye.

After four matches on the trot without a goal, coach Didier Deschamps elected to plump for the 27-year-old Gignac, who has scored three goals in three outings for Marseille in Ligue 1 this season.

Gignac won the last of his 16 caps at the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, but Cabaye will not add to his solitary cap, paying for his lack of game time at English Premier League club Newcastle.

Deschamps warned his squad that it must not think itself "superior" for the qualifiers against Georgia in Tblisi on 6 September and Belarus four days later in Gomel.

"We have to win (against Georgia)," the 1998 FIFA World Cup-winning captain told AFP. "We'll have in front of us a Georgia team that has nothing to lose and will fight like the away match (which the French won 3-1). We have to get ourselves in tournament mode and not that that we're superior and that we'll win."

Deschamps added: "There's no such thing as an easy international these days. There are three points to play for and they won't gift them to us. Georgia didn't give up until the end against Spain (losing 1-0) and almost equalised in the final minute.